Doctors Warn Cheap Colored Shirts Pose Health Risk
Four Chicago physicians at a Chicago Medical Society meeting described cheap pink, blue, and red shirts sold by second hand clothiers as potentially poisonous when worn next to the skin. Dr. Charles A. Motter highlighted skin contact, blood poisoning risks, and suggested promoting white underwear to reduce disease, with settlement workers targeted for outreach.
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Crew Frozen In Ice on Svera baya Near Amur River
The German steamship Svera baya with all hands dead was found encased in ice near Nicolaievsk on the Amur river. Once coal to Japan, it later carried arms for Russia and tried to slip Japanese scouts to Vladivostok, but froze in October and was only recently discovered by Amur natives.
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Sverabaya
Nicolaievsk
Amur
Japan
Vladivostok
Peril to Mont St Michael as sands engulf island
Destruction threatens Mont St Michael in St Michael bay as sands encroach, linking the fortress to the mainland at low tide. If the sand roots solidify, the island will lose its isolation and visitors will face crowding and rising tides.
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Siberian Train Service Expands as Evacuations Continue
The London Times reports six trains daily along the Siberian railway in both directions. Four are military trains carrying Russian troops from the far east, with 400,000 already departed on January 14. Evacuation of Manchuria by Russian forces should finish by early June.
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Far East
Manchuria
Luck in Texas Oil Fields
The Texas oil rush continues as wildcatters search for new fields near Humble after Spindle Top Sour Lake Batson and Humble booms. Land values soar when wells appear, with some tracts selling at astronomical prices and farmers turning into land magnates virtually overnight.
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Grouse Imported for Michigan Grand Island Preserve
Newberry Minnesota reports another shipment of Swedish willow grouse for the Grand Island game preserve on Lake Superior. Last year’s Swedish imports wintered well and are expected to boost summer flocks. Gamekeepers fight hawks owls foxes and fishers to protect the birds.
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Scandinavian Peninsula
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Witchcraft of Whites Impress Zulus at Nkandhla
Durban reports that searchlights used by British forces to quell Zulu sedition at Nkandhla impressed the natives who saw the beam as the eye of the Almighty. The flashing light revealed Kaffir trails to the horizon and caused the Zulus to cower and drop to the ground.
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Natal
Saunders
Nkandhala
Wireless Telegrams Link Gay Coney Island to Erin
Gay Coney Island and Erin exchange wireless telegrams nightly with 1000 words sent and 572 received. The record distance reaches 3200 miles as engineers test pitches to find the suitable key for Ireland. Once settled, commercial Atlantic communication is planned with relay stations possibly atop the Rocky Mountains and at Coney Island.
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Atlantic
San Francisco
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Nevada Hot Springs Rise After Earthquake
Reports indicate Nevada Springs and Valley Springs in Carson valley are 15 to 25 degrees hotter since the eighteenth quake. Steamboat Springs near Reno is also warmer and agitated after the shock, with Elko county springs showing greater temperature increases.
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Strange Bequest Sends Nephew on Ottoman Quest
A Frenchman who died in Constantinople left $45,000 to his Paris-based nephew on the condition that the young man cycle to Constantinople to claim the inheritance. The curious bequest prompts a perilous long journey across Europe and into the Ottoman capital.
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Starvation Forces Cannibalism Among Siberian Tribes
Dispatches from St. Petersburg recount famine on the Chuckechee and adjacent Yukagir areas in 1904 05. Facing starvation, many families killed relatives and themselves. reports cite a Dolganoff informer and a Yukagir with cannibal acts amid extreme winter privation.
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St. Petersburg
Chuckechee Peninsula
Ahia
American Museum of Natural History
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Chueckhee
Yukaghir
Dolganoff
Yakutsk
Siberia
Sredne- Kolymek
Kolymsk
Kolyma
Yassatchnaja
Popova
Eight Days in a Tomb Ends in Death in Fire Ruins
In Oakland a fisherman Antonio Compania survived eight days trapped in a zinc lined meat refrigerator behind a Clay Street fish market after an earthquake and fire. He found the door opened but died minutes later. He had no water but ate meat from the vault and heard the surrounding blaze.
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Antonio Compania
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Fishermen Rescue Man From Vault After Collapse
Fishermen who remembered seeing a companion run into the meat safe pried open the vault door among ruins. They lifted Compania into the air, but he died.
Mendicants Grow Rich Says London Official
Sir Eric Buchannan of the London Mendicity Society testifies before the vagrancy committee that about 500000 pounds are given to beggars yearly in London. He says most beggars are not deserv ing and that a successful street beggar can net around 1.25 pounds daily, totaling 7.50 pounds weekly with Sunday rest. He notes reforms would curb begging by limiting police intervention.
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London Mendicity Society
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England
Eric
Speaks for Itself as Character Advertisement
A short promotional note proclaims that character requires no external recommendation and will plead its own case, attributed to Success Magazine.
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Success Magazine
Woman Once Rich Becomes Vagrant in Denver Jail
Mrs. Joan Lorin, once wife of a Scottish rich manufacturer and sister to a wealthy Scottish banker, sits in Arapahoe county jail serving a 30 day vagrancy sentence. Her brother and wife dispute her tale of abuse and poverty, while English relatives blame drink. Several charitable women seek her release as police note prior prison time.
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Arapahoe
Joan Lorin
Robert P. Milne
Milne
England
Mrs. Milne
Hand Print Appears On Ex-Slave's Chest After Storm
Little Hickman Kentucky tale recasts a strange incident as a white hand imprint on Jasper Brown’s chest. The near 90 year old ex slave, struck by lightning under a maple, later discovers a raised white outline of a hand on his skin. He prays vigilantly, fearing doom.
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Pennsylvania Dutch cherry trees spread across towns
In late April southeastern Pennsylvania showcases widespread cherry bloom. Old trees, some four feet in diameter, still sprout lush blossoms. German settlements from Germantown to Delaware river counties dot Cherry Hill and Cherry Valley, with cherries common across German counties and tied to migrations westward into Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa.
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Iowa
Ten Sheep Buried Six Days In Snow Drift
In Cheyenne Wyoming ten bucks owned by L A Sheep Co. were buried under several feet of snow for at least six days after a severe storm. Found by searchers seeking Pete Brother Son, the animals were saved and cared for at a neighboring ranch and restored to normal condition.
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L. A. Sheep Company
Pete Brotherson
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